CC-related legal scholarship and references

This is for collecting legal scholarship related to the CC licenses' interpretation and enforceability that is not case law directly concerning the CC licenses.

General (uncategorized)

• Little Victories: Promoting Artistic Progress Through the Enforcement of Creative Commons Attribution and Share-Alike Licenses: Ashley West: 2008
• The Creative Commons licences through moral rights provisions in French law: Alexandra Giannopoulou: 2014

Compatibility

• ODI: exploring compatibility between data licenses
  • in-progress document
• Margoni, Thomas, Not for Designers: On the Inadequacies of EU Design Law and How to Fix It (October 1, 2013). Journal of Intellectual Property, Information Technology and E-Commerce Law, 4 (3) 2013
• “Creative Commons Licenses Legal Pitfalls: Incompatibilities and Solutions“, Melanie Dulong de Rosnay, Institute for Information Law/Creative Commons Nederland, 2010
• ”Creative Commons and Related Rights in Sound Recordings: Are the Two Systems Compatible?“, Christina Angelopoulos, Amsterdam: Instituut voor Informatierecht December 2009
• [http://www.jipitec.eu/issues/jipitec-2-2-2011/3085 Creative Commons licences and design Are the two compatible?. Catherine Jasserand (2011), jipitec, Vol. 2.

Database Rights

• Open licensing and databases: Simone Aliprandi: 2012
• Dietr, Nil and Guibault, Lucie and Margoni, Thomas and Siewicz, Krzysztof and Spindler, Gerald and Wiebe, Andreas, Safe to Be Open: Study on the Protection of Research Data and Recommendations for Access and Usage (2013). OpenAirePlus
• Accessing and Licensing Government Data under Open Access Conditions Ilaria Buri: 2012

Termination of Transfers

• Shrinking the Commons: Termination of Copyright Licenses and Transfers for the Benefit of the Public: Timothy K. Armstrong: 2007

• Building a Reliable Semicommons of Creative Works: Enforcement of Creative Commons Licenses and Limited Abandonment of Copyright: Lydia Loren: 2007